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Show . . ~ ~ · · Of the 11iluanctment ojletZrning .· · · Naturcin(endftli one-thing, and P-rouidecedraw.: · eth forth another; then if hee .bad communicated to particular Grea·tures .. and . M.otion s die C hara ... lters and Impreffions .of his Prouidence; And thus tnuchfor ME 1- AP .HIs 1 c K E,thelarerpart wher· . of, I allo\V as extant, bJJ~ .wifh it confincd'to his pro- .p~r p~ace·. 1 · , ~ .~ • • Neuerthcletfe there ·rematneth yet another part of N AT V R A L I:, P H I L 0 S 0 P H I E, . which is commonly made a principall part ' an.d holdetli r~nke with PH I SI G K E fpeci all..and MET A pI-t r s I.e K E ·: \v.hich j~ Mathematicke, I ·but 1 think it m.orc agreable to theN atl!re of things, . and to the light of order, to plac.e it as a Brariah of . Metap'hijic.ke: For the fubiectof~t being J2.!!fntitie! t , . ·pot fl!!._antitie Jndtjnite: which is but a Rel~,titte, and , b~longeth to Philofophia Prima(as hath beene faid,) · but Jl!!antitie determined,· or proportiontt/Jie, ir ap- . p~areth to ~ee one. of .tl:le ef!entiAII formes ·of things; · as that, that- is caul3tiue in Natu~·e of a nun1ber ~ of Effects; inf<lmuch as wee .fee in the Schoolcs both of Democriills, and of Pithagoro·, that the . , one·drri aft~i!Je Figure to the Jirft foe4es of things, and . the other df.il fuppofo. nNm.herJ to bt.e the principalles llf!rl.origin4/ls·Dfthings; And it is true aHo tha.t of aU othtr formes ~ (as wee vnderfiand formes) it is tqe ... moll abtlra'Cled,. and fi·parable from matter . aQ~ ~~~~~(ore ffloft .pr. op~r to c.!JUttaphificke, which · . . • • f' • h tJ.. a. .··~ ) . 'The flc~nd b~oke: · .. , ·. 3 t . . / ~141-altf•.wire beene the ~aufe; why. it hath beene red , ~nd ~nq.uir~d, . tlre~ any of~he m~s· , wh1ch ~ are more unmerfed into • . ijor it beeing the· Nature of theM in de: r:o the extr~ame preiu.diceofknowledge) t 1~ thefpac1ous hberueof generalities,as r"~l: ........ ~pron Region; and not in the inclofures ~ Jaritie ~ the MATHEMA.TicKS·. other .knowledge \vere the goodliefi fieldes · e that appetite! But for the placing oft his , iris not much MateriaU: oneJy we haue ured in thefe our Partitions · to obferue a pcdiue, that one part may call light V}>" ---.-..-· MA'THEMATICKS are either rMIXT :To the PVRE MATHEe KS arethofeScieces belongino whi~h '!2!£~tlltitie determinate mcere}y feue~'d fron1 ~-·" .... esofN A TVR ALL PH L 0 S 0- · and the(e are two, G E 0 l\1 E-T R Y and · · H M E'T I C K E, TheonehandJino • . 0 conrtnued , and the other ditTeuercd. hat~ for f~biccr fome Axiomes or parts :Pbtlo.fop!e: a~~ ~onlider.eth ~anti tie , .as -It ts auxtltane a ad tncident vnto .:·;·,·~··, .. or rnany p~rts of Nature can neither be ith fufficient fubtiltie ,' nor detnonfira. ill!IUI.tic":i·c ~·. nt per.fpicuitie,nor accommodated · • 1 · ·H. h 3 vnto : . \ |
